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Dear Dr. Pipes
Reader comment on item: Deciphering the Trump and Erdoğan Foreign Policies
Submitted by Debanjan Banerjee (India), Sep 6, 2017 at 22:50
Greetings Dr. Pipes.
"I don't even want ISIS to disappear because, horrid as it is, it holds off Iranian expansion, which is yet more threatening"
Your above support of ISIS actually justify Iranian support for Hezbollah or Hamas. If you consider both ISIS, Hezbollah and Hamas as terrorists then why not you and Israel oppose all these groups ?
Just supporting ISIS as they fight Hezbollah is not the right way I believe to fight terror.
What is your view on this ?
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Daniel Pipes replies:
First, I don't use the word terrorist and don't even know what it refers to anymore.
Second, my argument has nothing to do with morality. ISIS, Hizbullah, and the Islamic Republic of Iran are all morally horrifying. But the latter two are far more dangerous than ISIS.
Reader comments (14) on this item
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| Analyzing Erdogan and Trump [609 words] | Michael S | Sep 7, 2017 22:21 | 240733 | ||
| 1 |  "Gog" vs "God" [1088 words] | Michael S | Sep 11, 2017 04:37 | 240733 | |
| Time is ticking, toward the Kurdish Referendum [728 words] | Michael S | Sep 14, 2017 02:40 | 240733 | ||
 Dear Dr. Pipes [83 words]w/response from Daniel Pipes | Debanjan Banerjee | Sep 6, 2017 22:50 | 240729 | ||
| So you support Iranian policy vis a vis Syria [32 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | Debanjan Banerjee | Sep 13, 2017 01:36 | 240729 | ||
| 1 | Understanding Daniel Pipes? [281 words] | Michael S | Sep 16, 2017 02:07 | 240729 | |
| Indifference is same as support [124 words] | Debanjan Banerjee | Sep 16, 2017 04:18 | 240729 | ||
| Don't argue with Debanjan Banerjee [87 words] | Prashant | Sep 16, 2017 12:32 | 240729 | ||
| I have always been consistent [186 words] | Debanjan Banerjee | Sep 22, 2017 03:04 | 240729 | ||
| The analogy is not correct [229 words] | Prashant | Sep 22, 2017 08:31 | 240729 | ||
| Drivel! [58 words] | dhimmi no more | Sep 23, 2017 10:34 | 240729 | ||
| Turkey shelters Al-Nusra, so Israel doesn't have to [50 words] | Michael S | Oct 12, 2017 03:52 | 240729 | ||
| Israel does shelter IS [27 words] | Debanjan Banerjee | Oct 19, 2017 23:54 | 240729 | ||
| Those ISIS troops are training in Syria, not Israel [245 words] | Michael S | Oct 29, 2017 03:28 | 240729 |
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